Saturday, December 11, 2010

Globalization

I have lately been railing against the idea of settling down in a suburban community with a white picket fence and a mortgage, because I hate the idea of being trapped into that kind of life. It's interesting that our discussions of globalization leads us to capitalism and ultimately to how the machine functions. My favorite quote from this discussion was, of course, about the suburbs.
" After the World War, we needed a place for all the GI's to live, so the suburbs became popular, which was great, now the GI's have somewhere to live, yay. More importantly, the suburbs created a new market for capitalism to exploit."
We were also talking about the way the United States compensated for the low wages of the workers. Once the workers wages were being limited, they couldn't afford to buy the products they were producing, so the US became a debt society. Thus the enslavement of people to their credit cards and their debt, and now we get to things like this debt crisis we're in now and David Harvey's insight.

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